Drum Corps International Field Pass
Summary: Drum Corps International (DCI) is the world leader in producing events for the world's most elite and exclusive marching ensembles for student musicians and performers. Field Pass presented by Zildjian is Drum Corps International's official podcast featuring award-winning host Dan Potter. With fresh episodes available daily throughout the summer on iTunes and DCI.org, Field Pass gives you an inside look at Marching Music’s Major League; from the parking lot, to the stadium tunnel to the 50-yard line!
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DCI World Championships week is here! The week began with three great nights of drum corps in Allentown and, for today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian, Dan Potter sent an audio postcard from Allentown, with love.
How does a drum corps rookie's experience evolve from the beginning of the summer season to the end? Dan Potter talks to one Carolina Crown rookie about what's changed for him in today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian.
The tunnel below the Georgia Dome in Atlanta echoed Sunday night with cheers from performers who knew they'd just had their best run of the season. Offering a glimpse of the drum corps experience rarely heard by the average fan in the stands, Dan Potter captures the celebration, inspiration and exultation heard from within the bowels of the stadium in today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian.
The Blue Devils are marking a couple of cultural firsts for the corps this summer; the Blue Devils A corps' first African-American head drum major and its first female center snare. Dan Potter talks with both of them in today's edition of the Field Pass presented by Zildjian.
DCI drum majors are chosen for their positions based primarily on their leadership and character, not on their ability to conduct. But, that is not to say that conducting isn't important. In today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian, DCI's Dan Potter talks with a performer who has taken the skill of conducting a drum corps to a new level this year Phantom Regiment's Dean Patterson.
Just when you thought it wasn't possible for the race at the top of DCI's World Class corps couldn't get any tighter this season, it has. Dan Potter has reaction to where things stand competitively at the end of the Texas tour in today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian. Interviews with the Blue Devils, Santa Clara Vanguard, Phantom Regiment, the Cavaliers and Spirit of Atlanta.
It's drum corps time in Texas! Dan Potter files this Field Pass, presented by Zildjian, from the road and speaks with Boston Crusaders' drum major Stephen Grindel.
Spirit of Atlanta has drum corps fans tapping their toes with a 2013 production that allows the corps to really let loose on some screamin' dixieland jazz charts. In today's Field Pass presented by Zildjian, Dan Potter talks with Spirit's veteran drum major Jacqie Rotch about 'Speakeasy.'
The 2013 Drum Corps International Tour of Champions event series got underway last night as the first of seven competitions took place just outside of Kansas City. DCI's Field Pass presented by Zildjian was there for one of the first face-to-face showdowns of many of this year's top performing corps.
Fans of the Madison Scouts are noticing something different about the way the Scouts are introduced when they take the field this summer. Their prerecorded introduction features Joe Bruno, the legendary announcer who was the voice of the Drum Corps Midwest Championships from 1971 to 1996. In this edition of the Field Pass presented by Zildjian, Dan Potter talks with Joe Bruno about his return to the microphone.
Part 5, Pioneer-Troopers An in-depth discussion between Field Pass host Dan Potter and DCI Artistic Director Michael Cesario about the competitive productions all of this years World Class corps are fielding on the 2013 DCI Tour.
Part 4, Mandarins-Phantom Regiment An in-depth discussion between Field Pass host Dan Potter and DCI Artistic Director Michael Cesario about the competitive productions all of this years World Class corps are fielding on the 2013 DCI Tour.
Part 3, Cascades-Madison Scouts An in-depth discussion between Field Pass host Dan Potter and DCI Artistic Director Michael Cesario about the competitive productions all of this years World Class corps are fielding on the 2013 DCI Tour.
Part 2, Bluecoats-Carolina Crown An in-depth discussion between Field Pass host Dan Potter and DCI Artistic Director Michael Cesario about the competitive productions all of this years World Class corps are fielding on the 2013 DCI Tour.
Part 1, Academy-Blue Stars An in-depth discussion between Field Pass host Dan Potter and DCI Artistic Director Michael Cesario about the competitive productions all of this years World Class corps are fielding on the 2013 DCI Tour.